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finding it grow late expressed their
The young ladies finding it grow late, expressed their apprehensions at being without any attendants; and desired Arabella to give over her search for that day.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

fall into graceful lines even though
Wherever the divine gift of intelligence resides, there are possibilities of beauty; and the mantle of the flesh at times will fall into graceful lines, even though the bufferings of circumstance may toss and twist it awry in the general.
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland

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